Supreme Court And Fantasy

Should The Supreme Court Be “Pro-Congress”?

Gabe Fleisher | Wake Up To Politics | 23rd February 2026

Analysis of the verdict striking down Trump’s tariffs, already being hailed as “the most important Supreme Court decision this century”. Gorsuch’s concurring opinion “takes just about everyone on the court to task” for partisan hypocrisy, concluding with a “paean to the legislative process”. He wants to (re)enshrine the primacy of legislative power but neither his conservative nor his liberal colleagues agree (3,900 words)

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Everyone Is Reading Fantasy

Francis Spufford | Guardian | 22nd February 2026

Fantasy is now the dominant literary genre in the book market. What draws people to it? “Fantasy is true to the experience of the human psyche. The strictly disenchanted world, where nothing exists but physical processes describable without metaphor, and even consciousness is just a material problem waiting to be solved, can be a desiccated place. It keeps heart and mind on inadequate rations” (2,100 words)